Daily Cal honored in 23 categories in college media contest
On Saturday, The Daily Californian received 23 awards, including nine first-place awards, in the annual California College Media Association contest.
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Author Archives: Melissa Wen
Editor’s Note: The Daily Californian adopts singular ‘they’
The Senior Editorial Board approved the style change to avoid the clunkiness of “she/he” and “his/her,” as well as to avoid perpetuating the gender binary in our way of writing.
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Workers, students call for insourcing of all subcontracted workers on campus
Several dozen students, workers and community members marched to various locations on campus and in the city Monday, delivering petitions calling for the insourcing of all subcontracted employees at UC Berkeley.
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The beginning of unbelief
Off the Beat
My mom is perpetually late, but not on the morning of her daughter’s fifth-grade graduation. Because an elementary school promotion is the sort of thing in life that you show up on time for. Or so she told my dad and me in an urgent, rising voice as we sat
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Q&A with Vice Chancellor for Equity and Inclusion Na’ilah Nasir
The campus recently appointed UC Berkeley professor Na’ilah Nasir as the new vice chancellor for equity and inclusion after Gibor Basri — the first to hold the position — opted to step down. Nasir, who is set to begin her term Nov. 1, sat down with The Daily Californian to talk about how she plans to work with students, why leading the division of equity and inclusion is so challenging, and how her academic research will inform her new administrative position.
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Getting around campus: travel times and shortcuts
New UC Berkeley students can rest assured that scrambling between back-to-back lectures on opposite ends of the campus is a challenge for even the most seasoned of seniors. Wait a couple years, though, and you might finally end up with a Tele-BEARS slot that doesn’t stick you with a lecture in Wheeler Auditorium right off the heels of a discussion in Mulford Hall. Even better, just a bit of familiarity with the campus geography can give you a real leg up in the race to class.
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Ongoing news for incoming students
A guide to the past and upcoming academic years' biggest changes
As often temporary Berkeleyans, students may struggle to make sense of the ongoing evolution — or devolution — of this campus and city.
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Police investigate shooting near San Pablo Park
Police are investigating the shooting of a man on Saturday near San Pablo Park.
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Back to Berkeley Instagram contest
The Daily Californian is hosting a Back to Berkeley Instagram contest to commemorate the start of another academic year. We will publish the winning photos in our Fall Orientation special issue, set to publish Aug. 28.
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Construction near Clark Kerr Campus breaks gas main, causes leak
Emergency personnel have controlled a gas leak caused by construction work near the intersection of Dwight Way and Prospect Street on Tuesday morning.
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